" "But the last part of the time you must have done able seaman's service?" "The captain and I together," said Andrew with his bright laugh.

Plundering and ill-treating Asiatics was a venial offence, and many a seaman after a cruise with the pirates returned to his calling on board an honest merchantman, without being thought much the worse for it.

Macrae was a thoroughly good seaman, with a fine crew that were attached to him, and was resolved to fight his ship to the last.

Fifty men of the Chandos who had not yet had an opportunity of gauging Brown's incapacity, volunteered, for forty rupees a head, to join a landing party; but not a single seaman in the squadron would consent, 'upon any consideration whatsoever,' to go on board the Phram, till an increased bounty secured the services of the Chandos' sailors.

According to one account, he served in Hawke's ship, but, wherever his training was received, it had made him a first-rate seaman.

"Oh, yus," said the seaman, chuckling, "'e wuz 'auled out finally.

His gray-shot hair was gathered up behind into a short stiff tail, and a seaman's hanger, with a brass handle, was girded to his waist by a tarnished leather belt.

But they and their old relative were far too engrossed with their own affairs to give a thought to the Puritan seaman.

"What is amiss with him, then, Amos?" asked the seaman.

The same night the seaman drew up his anchor and began to slowly make his way down the winding river.

D'ye see?" De Catinat again nodded, though in truth the seaman's metaphors left him with but a very general sense of his meaning.

" Whilst the Puritan seaman had been detailing his reminiscence, his eyes had kept wandering from the clouds to the flapping sails and back.

" The New England seaman whipped up his glass and steadied it upon the bulwark.

"Very sorry, captain," said the seaman, "but either you had to come with us, d'ye see, or we had to stay with you.

To the old seaman who was used to meeting and to parting it was a small matter, but Amos, who had never been away before, was on fire with impatience, and would sit smoking for hours with his legs astride the shank of the bowsprit, staring ahead at the skyline, in the hope that his friend's reckoning had been wrong, and that at any moment he might see the beloved coast line looming up in front of him.

Tomlinson staggered forwards to find the whole front part of the vessel driven inwards, and a single seaman sitting dazed amid splintered spars, flapping sails, and writhing, lashing cordage.

" "The long-boat has stove two planks," cried a seaman.

" The seaman and the captain swung themselves down into the tossing boat, the latter with a lantern strapped to his waist.

Captain Ephraim and the seaman seized it, and dragged it across the mouth of the huge gaping leak.

For a long quarter of an hour they pulled round and round in the moonlight, but not a glimpse could they see of the Puritan seaman, and at last, when in spite of the balers the water was washing round their ankles, they put her head about once more, and made their way in silence and with heavy hearts to their dreary island of refuge.

Janet H. Washburn (E of A. H. Seaman); 17Nov58; R225051.

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Then, by the flicker of the fire, we saw a low truckle-bed close under the window; a kind of bruised and battered seaman's chest in the middle of the room; a heap of firewood in one corner; a pile of old packing-cases; old sail-cloth, old iron, and all kinds of rubbish in another; a few pots and pans over the fire-place; and a dilapidated stool or two standing about the room.